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New MLB rules: shower at home, don't spit, Mr Met stay away

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FILE - In this May 27, 2013, file photo, Kansas City Royals bench coach Chino Cadahia (15) and St. Louis Cardinals first base coach Chris Maloney (37) exchange line-ups with home plate umpire Rob Drake (30) before a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. The exchange of lineup cards would be eliminated, fielders will be encourages to space themselves from baserunners between pitches and managers and coaches must wear masks while in the dugouts under Major League Baseball's proposed operations manual for starting the coronavirus-delayed season. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

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The Associated Press, Scripps National

Posted at 10:21 AM, May 18, 2020

and last updated2020-05-18 13:21:09-04

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will look somewhat like high school ball this year under protocols to deal with the new coronavirus, with showers at ballparks discouraged and players possibly arriving in uniform, like they did when they were teenagers.

According to The Athletic
, the MLB Players Association received a 67-page proposed plan on Friday for players and personnel to possibly follow if the season kicks off amidst the pandemic.

Team personnel will be banned from eating at restaurants on road trips.

Even the Phillie Phantic and Mr. Met will be missing, banned from the field along with all other team mascots.

According to the proposed plan
, managers will not exchange lineup cards at home plate, all players, managers, coaches and umpires will be regularly tested through saliva collections, or oral or nasal swabs.

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